Heyyyyy Bay Area folks! I'll be celebrating the launch of my book Muñeca at Pegasus Books, one of my favorite bookshops since I was a Cal student. I'd love to see a bunch of you there.
pegasusbookstore.com/gomez
Two very different kinds of hauntings delivered via StoryHour last night!
once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
This thread. As my uni cuts & cuts, I argue - let’s double down on being a home for all the students who will come here from other places - be a place that’s safe for trans students, welcome immigrants, support disabled students - we are a good place for them already, and should stand up & say that…
I'm enjoying taking some time off from watching a film a day, but I think I might do something similar to this with Harun Farocki in February. Everything I've seen by him has been amazing and, like Obomsawin, he's got shorts, so it feels doable.
Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good
The Democrats are cowards, structurally cowards, since their legitimacy as a ruling class party is anchored in their commitment to reproducing us imperialism. I get this, yet it continues to be disappointing to see the result of their spineless politics
pros and cons of using 3 different books to study something:
pros:
- 3 different perspectives, approaches, and explanations
- regular repetition
cons:
- sometimes you forget about 1 of the 3 books for a few days
Some people are responding to criticisms of this as if people were saying “impeachment is obviously the right strategy.” No. The point is that “impeachment isn’t the right strategy because the GOP may start to be responsible” is an unfathomably stupid and insulting lie.
and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave.
People care.
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
I cannot wait to confront any supporters (past or present) of the US president, insist they watch this video, and that they explain which sector of America this is going to make great (rich, powerful) again
You might want to read this but it also might make you sick with fury.
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
Just sent this to my mom and Finnish step dad!
Googling what a glass fish plate it! Love this clip and want to check out more of the 16mm work :) how is the experimental film scene up there?
Watched this last night for the first time, preparing for 16mm cinematography workshop next semester. I know the film is known for Alton’s DP work, but I was digging the conflict around (gendered?) notions of “objectivity” between Christine and Martin, like the scene where the seance get interrupted
Grateful to learn about this film from your post — will look it up and watch tomorrow! (Was searching “John Alton” and this was the first post!)
thank you May-lee! i'm grateful for the Spring semester CNF workshop for critique on this. excited to revise new pieces based on this fall semester's workshop:) grateful for all your work making this a wonderful semester for us!
i felt one in oakland!
We explore tensions in community underground art & archival spaces, examining Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema archive of 16mm educational films *AND* three experimental films that take that archive as their point of departure. This is a special place for so many of us. Hope you enjoy:)
Very excited this critical essay I co-wrote with Ellie Vanderlip is out in the experimental film journal, Found Footage Magazine.
foundfootagemagazine.com/online-issue...
Great fun: testing an entirely new film emulsion in Super 8 application. First samples were made from “hand coated” [loop pilot coater] film strips spliced together to reach 50ft full cartridge length. Perfectly processed by @super8.nl (despite the splices!)
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How 13 CSU presidents got up-to-20 percent raises despite huge budget cuts and layoffs: www.calfac.org/how-csu-trus...
and I don't think I'm a total fool for this -- I was clearly sick when I first watchted the show, so that explains some of the delusionment, but I'm glad I now recognize this would be impossible -- they have a 30 year age gap
what's really tripping me up is that I truly thought that the actor who played Jerry Horne (Ben Horne's brother/"lawyer") was Casey Neistat. I developed a whole narrative in my head that this was how Neistat got his start prior to YouTube, that he'd somehow not aged much, etc
We are watching the second season of Twin Peaks at my house and I had only watched it once before -- and i happened to have been super sick in like February of 2020 (who knows if I had COVID) and it was on a TV which stretched the aspect ratio to 16:9. I realized this time its actually 4:3. But,
I had no idea about the debates this film generated between Marxist and Catholic aligned sectors, nor Pasolini's own self-ciriticism for maybe going "too far" with some of the scenes with miraculous occurrences. Interested if there were any third-way marxists who defended the film
